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TIFU by taking Adderall instead of Prozac

Without getting too into it, I've had a history of mental health problems since childhood. I tried a number of different medications as a teenager, but ended up disliking the side effects and stopping use altogether by the time I was 18. Now, at 23, I've been in therapy for a few years and decided with the help of my therapist to try it again. This is where the problems start.

A few months back I see a sort of shady zoom psychiatrist. She diagnoses me with ADHD within a 20 minute conversation, with no diagnostic test, and prescribes me Adderall. I've previously suspected I've had ADHD, so I went with it. I tried taking it for a while, but have a lot of anxiety/ocd issues that it exacerbated, so I stopped. I didn't throw it away or anything, just threw it in my cupboard and forgot about it. The capsules were green and white.

A few weeks later, I decide to give meds another go, but with a different psychiatrist. This one seems a lot more like an actual doctor. Decides on starting me on prozac for my OCD symptoms. I pick the meds up from my pharmacy. They're also green and white capsules, just slightly smaller.

I get a weekly pill organizer to keep track of my meds, and on week 2, I grab my meds from my cupboard and load it for the week.

I'm not noticing anything too different on prozac, but it isnt supposed to kick in for 3-6 weeks so I'm not that worried. Sometimes I forget to take it until later in the day, like 7pm. I'm having my normal anxiety symptoms, but sometimes struggling to sleep far beyond my usual insomnia. I'm not hungry, my mouth is weirdly dry, and my hands shake on occasion but I attribute it to not eating.

Today, I go to load my medication into my pill organizer for the 3rd week, and I notice they look different. I read the label, but it says prozac. It's definitely the right pills. Suddenly I remember the Adderall also in my cupboard. Upon investigation, I've been taking Adderall for at least the past week.

Now I have to restart weening myself onto prozac, I have no idea if it's helpful or not, and I've been unknowingly on Adderall for hopefully 1 week maybe 2? All because I couldn't keep track of my pill bottles. Plus at my month out appointment I'll have to explain I've actually only been taking it for 2 weeks! I feel like such an idiot.

TL;DR: I had an old Adderall perscription that looks very similar to Prozac. Ended up taking Adderall instead of Prozac for at least a week.

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